Tanaka Shōsuke
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Tanaka Shōsuke was a Japanese merchant in the early Edo period. He is the first recorded Japanese to have travelled to the Americas in 1610. Returning to Japan in 1611, he again went to North America
San Buena Ventura was built on the model of Liefde (depicted here), the ship on which William Adams originally reached Japan.
Hasekura Tsunenaga's portrait during his embassy in 1615, by Claude Deruet, Coll. Borghese, Rome.
A replica of the Japanese-built galleon San Juan Bautista, in Ishinomaki, Japan.
Hasekura Tsunenaga
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Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga was a kirishitan Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai. He was of Japanese imperial descent with ancestral ties to Emperor Kanmu. Other names
Itinerary and dates of the travels of Hasekura Tsunenaga
Hasekura's coat of arms in contemporary depictions